Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)
28 June 2011
Nairobi — An organization that supports budding and established women writers in Kenya will officially launch a new book containing a collection of unpublished works on July 29, 2011 at the German Cultural Center- Goethe Institute at 6pm in Nairobi.
The new book titled, Fresh Paint – Literary Vignettes by Kenyan Women is sponsored by AMKA a non-profit organization that gives voice to women and Goethe-Institut Kenya.
Fresh Paint is the first collection of the best poems and short stories selected at a Literature Forum which is held at the German Cultural Center-Goethe Institute every last Saturday of the month.
The Literature Forum brings together published writers, aspirants and literature professors.
The launch will be in the form of a moderated panel discussion and short performances by some of the writers.
This anthology of poems and short stories is the culmination of a joint literary project by AMKA, Space for Women’s Creativity and Goethe-Institut Kenya.
For over 3 years, the literature forum has been held in the library of the Goethe-Institut every last Saturday of the month where participants write poems and short stories, which are then read or performed, discussed and critiqued by their peers and invited literature professors and established writers.
AMKA organization was formed in 1997 by three Kenyan women who had been affected by the injustices meted out against women during the 1980s by the one party state and lacked the means to express themselves and share their experiences.
AMKA’s three-year plan consists of four interrelated programmes: Research and Women Empowerment, Information, Documenting and Publishing, Public Education, Advocacy and Networking.
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